January 2009
104 posts
“… This bill is an important step - a simple fix to ensure fundamental...”
– President Obama remarks on signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act (via julyshewillfly) now we just need constitutional equality, and we’re set. (i’m happy this is the first legislation Obama signed, but don’t forget, the equal rights amendment was never passed....
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a... →
fascinating article exposing one of the holes in our (previously) fancy market, short selling. via givemesomethingtoread
Interesting articles on crowd technology
bebelestrange:
crowd control
problems with tumblr
anybody else out there have posts not showing up on your tumblr? they are in the dashboard, but not on my page. they’re back.
Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil' →
via ratherfancy
A performance gap between African-Americans and... →
via theoriginaljoefisher
this is pretty interesting too:“Researchers in the last decade assembled university students with identical SAT scores and administered tests to them, discovering that blacks performed significantly poorer when asked at the start to fill out a form identifying themselves by race. The researchers attributed those results to anxiety that caused them to tighten up...
“The real global warming culprit — as James Hansen and his colleagues at...”
– Oil Is Not the Climate Change Culprit — It’s All About Coal
therefore, electric cars are not the answer. not until we produce that electricity through green technologies.
“A priest, a minister and a rabbi walk into a bar and the bartender says: What is...”
– Guy Walks In to a Bar
oh, how i love a stupid joke.
“The internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll.”
– Bruce Schneier
(via heather-rivers)
Amazon customers review the Playmobil Security... →
(via theoriginaljoefisher)
Watch Grand Illusions via Gute Luft
⌘C ⌘V Character →
walpaper:
All the commonly used special characters that you may not remember the keyboard code for in one click.
via mattmcinerney
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This is wonderful. Never again will I waste time putting the ™ in Jazzsundays™
ha
